Fairy
['feərɪ] or ['fɛri]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Enchantment; illusion.
(n.) The country of the fays; land of illusions.
(n.) An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
(n.) An enchantress.
(a.) Of or pertaining to fairies.
(a.) Given by fairies; as, fairy money.
錄入:洛伦佐
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fay, elf, pigwidgeon.
編輯:苏珊娜
解釋/意思:
n. an imaginary being generally of diminutive and graceful human form capable of kindly or unkindly acts towards man: fairy-folk collectively: an enchantress or creature of overpowering charm.—adj. like a fairy fanciful whimsical delicate.—adv. Fair′ily.—n.pl. Fair′y-beads the separate joints of the stems of fossil crinoids found in carboniferous limestone.—ns. Fair′y-butt′er a name applied in northern England to certain gelatinous fungi; Fair′ydom; Fair′yhood Fair′yism; Fair′yland the country of the fairies.—adj. Fair′y-like like or acting like fairies.—n. Fair′y-mon′ey money given by fairies which quickly changes into withered leaves &c.: money found.—ns.pl. Fair′y-rings -cir′cles spots or circles in pastures either barer than the rest of the field or greener—due to the outwardly spreading growth of various fungi.—ns. Fair′y-stone a fossil echinite found abundantly in chalk-pits; Fair′y-tale a story about fairies: an incredible tale.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always a scene with a beautiful face portrayed as a happy child, or woman.
手打:罗莎琳德
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A creature variously fashioned and endowed that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalists to be extinct though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855 while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction and been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux a writer of the fourteenth century avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter and that the next day after it had resumed its original shape and gone away there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III of England a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for 'Kyllynge wowndynge or mamynge ' a fairy and it was universally respected.
手打:穆里尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The city of Messina, milk-white, and starred and spangled all over with gaslights, was a fairy spectacle. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The other was as certainly Georgiana: but not the Georgiana I remembered--the slim and fairy-like girl of eleven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I shall no longer call you the Fairy of Midnight, he whispered, wrapping the shawl round her shoulders; your name will be the 'Moon Elf. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It was a fairy vision no longer. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It looks like a fairy world, said Meg, smiling to herself, as she stood behind the curtain, watching the dazzling sight. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I don't care for the fairy: you said it was mademoiselle you would take to the moon? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Certainly, in her timid yet earnest advance to friendship, it could not be denied that there was a most exquisite and fairy charm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- No, my fairy: but I am only too thankful to hear and feel you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In the glowing splendor it looked so frail and ethereal, that, even as they gazed, it melted away before their eyes like a fairy vision. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Mr. Bhaer was Nick Bottom, and Tina was Titania, a perfect little fairy in his arMs. To see them dance was 'quite a landscape', to use a Teddyism. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Right in this place the artist taxed his genius to the utmost, and fairly opened the gates of fairy land. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But, you see, you ARE so like the fairy godmother in the bright little books! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Dear John, your wishes are as real to me as the wishes in the Fairy story, that were all fulfilled as soon as spoken. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Whether the fairies made any mention of the five thousand pounds, and it disagreed with Baby, is not speculated upon. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When I was a very little girl, Mr. Moore, my nurse used to tell me tales of fairies being seen in that Hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Is it fairies? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I began to think myself in the land of fairies! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Are you fairies? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If any of the old English yeomen had turned into fairies when they died, it was just the place in which they would have held their revels. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But there are worse things than fairies to be guarded against, pursued Miss Keeldar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- About the Fairies, sir, and the Dwarf, and the Hunchback, and the Genies,' she sobbed out; 'and about—' 'Hush! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
整理:康拉德